Does Housework Expand to Fill the Time Available?

If your life is fun-filled and action-packed, housework somehow gets done in the tiny pockets of time between fun and action. But when you have some free time, housework can seem to take over. Bridget Jones theorized, "Packing always expands to fill the time available so best use of time, surely, is to make available time v. short." Can that apply to household chores as well? More